{"id":987524594,"date":"2021-05-07T03:36:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T02:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/health-protection-extended-to-people-working-amid-high-risk-of-contracting-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:24:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:24:19","slug":"health-protection-extended-to-people-working-amid-high-risk-of-contracting-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/health-protection-extended-to-people-working-amid-high-risk-of-contracting-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Protection extended to people working amid high risk of contracting COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dole.gov.ph\/news\/workplace-rules-set-to-cut-spread-of-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Department of Labor and Employment<\/a> said COVID-19 has been included in the list of occupational and work-related diseases. This means workers who were infected by the virus could receive compensation via the <a href=\"http:\/\/ecc.gov.ph\/\">Employees&#8217; Compensation Commission (ECC)<\/a> provided they meet the conditions specified under a recent board resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Labor Undersecretary<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ph\/news\/national\/dole-now-allows-employees-to-be-placed-under-floating-status-for-a-year\/ar-BB1at2q6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Benjo Benavidez <\/a>clarified COVID-19 infection is already compensable even before the resolution was released. However, authorities said there is a need to simplify the process of compensation for those infected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With respect to medical reimbursement, the ECC will reimburse the hospital expenses net of PhilHealth&#8230;What is in excess of the reimbursement cost under PhilHealth will be paid by the ECC,&#8221; Benavidez added.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is an extract from the new article originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/cnnphilippines.com\/news\/2021\/4\/29\/covid19-dole-compensable-disease.html\">CNN Philippines<\/a>.&nbsp;Read the entire article&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cnnphilippines.com\/news\/2021\/4\/29\/covid19-dole-compensable-disease.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/s3media.freemalaysiatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/philippines-virus-test-AP020820.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malaysia Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say about workers&#8217; compensation for COVID 19 in the Philippines? Please let us know in the comments section below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Labor and Employment said COVID-19 has been included in the list of occupational and work-related diseases. This means workers who were infected by the virus could receive compensation via the Employees&#8217; Compensation Commission (ECC) provided they meet the conditions specified under a recent board resolution. Labor Undersecretary Benjo Benavidez clarified COVID-19 infection&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987530661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[118,123,2316,124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}